Below we have printed
an English translation of an article from the Yugoslav newspaper, Politika,
reporting on the trial of Fikret Abdic, the popular
Bosnian Muslim leader.

Abdic was a great embarrassment to the U.S.
government.

He was and is popular, arguably the most
popular Muslim leader; he got the most votes in the 1990
Bosnian elections. And that was the problem because he was allied
with the Bosnian Serbs. He supported the concept of
Yugoslavia - a multiethnic state. He fought Alija
Izetbegovic, the extreme Islamist, installed and
maintained in Sarajevo through U.S. power and ludicrously
misdescribed by U.S. government apologists as a
great and broadminded democrat.

Fikret Abdic gives the lie to the claim, put forth by
chauvinists of various sorts in Bosnia and by the media, that the fighting
in Bosnia resulted from a racist attack by Serbian forces on Muslims.

Abdic and tens of
thousands of followers set up the Autonomous
Region of Western Bosnia, an area with a very strong partisan and anti-fascist
tradition stemming from the W.W.II struggle against Nazi occupation
and Croatian Ustasha terror.

The Autonomous area, which straddled the
Bosnian and Croatian border, was populated by Muslims,
Serbs, and some Croats who upheld Yugoslav ideals of
solidarity. Abdic and his followers sided with the
Serbs who wanted to preserve Yugoslavia and feared the
rise of local fascism backed by the Great Powers. He
fought on the Serbian side in Bosnia until both the
Serbian Republic in Krajina (RSK) and his own ARWB were
crushed by a coordinated offensive combining NATO airstrikes
and a ground offensive by the 5th Corps of Alija
Izetbegovic's army and the Croatian regular army (trained
and led by the CIA and the privatized CIA-linked company,
MPRI) thereby launching an ethnic-cleansing operation
that drove 250,000 Serbs and some 50,000-80,000 Muslims
from their traditional homes.

-- Emperor's Clothes

"Case
Opened Against Fikret Abdic" By: R. Arsenic

Politika (Belgrade)

ZAGREB (June 6, 2001) - After two months of
preparations the regional state prosecutor in Rijeka
initiated a case against Fikret Abdic, a citizen of
B&H and Croatia, who has been based for a while now
in Opatija, where the HQ of his company is found. By this
act, the long-standing controversy between Bosnia and
Croatia over the eventual fate of the leader of the
Autonomous Movement for Western Bosnia - where Abdic has
the support of his own people who followed him in
resistance to the centralism of Alija Izetbegovic and his
SDA.

Fikret Abdic lost that war (even though he had
won in elections), and the Izetbegovic regime has since
accused him of war-crimes against those who disagreed
with his policies and has asked for Abdic's extradition
from Croatia to which he fled and whose citizenship he
held.

Alija's regime couldn't forgive Fikret's
rebellion, and judging from the available evidence they
also couldn't support his unquestionable popularity with
not only the people of the region of Cazinska Krajina (remember
that Abdic received the most votes in Bosnia, but
Izetbegovic nonetheless seized the Presidency in the
early 1990s). This is why after the fall of the
Autonomous Region of Western Bosnia Croatia received
a demand from Bosnia to extradite Fikret Abdic, who was
accused of having opened a camp near Velika Kladusha and
of torturing prisoners within the camp.

According to the statement of Rijeka's
prosecutor Draga Marincela, the case against Abdic is
composed of documents that were obtained from Bosnia, and
is being raised on the basis of the international treaty
between Croatia and Bosnia regarding approaches to
criminal cases, and following the Bosnian governments
acceptance of this process.